- President Donald Trump reportedly berated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call last fall over a U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire plan.
- According to the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, Trump used a “foul-mouthed tirade” to pressure Netanyahu to accept the agreement.
- Trump told Netanyahu that “Everybody’s sick of you, Bibi” and warned of “a divorce” between the two allies if he did not comply.
- The peace plan was devised by Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner following an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas leader in Doha, Qatar.
- Netanyahu ultimately accepted the agreement and apologized for the airstrike, though he later convinced Trump to join Israel in a war with Iran.
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